Using DIY prefix

Just came back to the site and thought I had come to a pharmacy site! My tablet displays 30 headings at a time, 15 were about drugs only 6 were actually DIY the rest various OT posts. We might have to start prefixing DIY in the subject line to cut out wading through the useless cross.

Richard

I have started to select a range of headings, then unselect the proper ones, and delete the rest. At least it clears a load of crap out of the way.

Pay ?10/year for a NIN subscription, they filter out most of the spam.

This highlights the advantages of using a paid for news service! I?ve not seen a single one of these posts on News.Individual.NET.

Tim

In message snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com, Tricky Dicky snipped-for-privacy@sky.com writes

Yes. Luckily my news reader has a *kill* function.

Doesn't happen with Plusnet's "free" offering to customers either

Looks like my news feed (giganews) must have filtered those before I saw them since I can see them on gg, but not via my newsfeed.

PN's service is provided by giganews these days...

Yes. And I filter the rest using Thunderbird.

Er Killfiles ?

If usenet were a more active medium, there might be scope for setting up kill-lists so that we can all work to zap the spammers.

I subscribe to NIN and I saw a whole load of SPAM postings via diybanter.

In fact, after clearing out yesterday I can see a whole new load from CobFent cluttering up the group today.

I still haven't found the time/energy etc. to work out how to wild card killfile entries for the Windows version of Pan and diybanter seems to include an 8 character hex string in the author string which changes with each post (unless this is provided by the spammer).

One day I will find the Round Tuit.

Anyway, these posts aren't currently being filtered by NIN.

Cheers

Dave R

I haven't seen any of the current round of pharmacy or dope-growing spam, maybe they cancel it rather than filtering it from source, so it depends when you grab headers?

Strange. I'm using NiN and I saw several, although I quickly killfiled them.

Just get rid of all diybanter, there is never anything useful there anyway.

Actually they are there, the reason I didn't see them is that my diybanter filter killed them for me ...

Ah, maybe I didn?t see them because I have Diybanter.com and example.com killfiled?

Tim

Indeed , but that is easier said than done, unless you have a suitable filter?

I've managed to develop a filter that kills most of the pharmaceutical dealers, but, as it is pretty much a drugs list, if I were to post it here I guess some spam filters might get twitchy.

Chris

I haven't seen any drug related ones recently so I assume that the killfile in Gravity is doing its job.

Agree about the OT posts: Brexit, Brexit and yet more Brexit.

I do wish they would f*ck off and starte a uk.brexit newsgroup

- and take all the idiots who insist on replying to posts from Rod Speed with them as well.

news.eternal-september.org works for me. That and an ever growing filter-set (posters, subjet and contents) keeps the pointless drivel to a minimum.